Preparedness GIFT Ideas

Table of Content

• CHRISTMAS GIFTS: Can You Give the Gift of Preparedness?
• Paper Products We All Need To Store For Survival
• Prepper Scavenger Hunt – Fun For The Whole Family!
• The most unique survival and prepper gifts
• Emergency Shut-Off Tool
• W-39 1 1940s National Geographic article related to military preparedness for US Army pre-World War 2 pages of reading military
• Reader Interactions

This is the age where we are grooming our kids to go to college, serve their church, go learn a trade, get married, or otherwise pursue their dreams. Going full prepper with Christmas presents might not be entirely possible, but a multitude of self-reliance style gifts under the tree, even for the kiddos, is most definitely feasible. Celebrate Christmas with a prepping twist and not only help your loved ones become more self-reliant, but introduce the concept of preparedness to friends and co-workers as well. As we’ve said many times before, gear that fills more than one role in your emergency plan is worth its weight in gold. Space is limited, and if you can get multiple uses from a single item, you’re making more room for life-saving supplies like food. What’s more, this bad boy is big, which is exactly what you want in an emergency countertop filter.

I have a small space heater I can plug into my Goal Zero Solar generator. You can add eight drops of unscented bleach per one gallon of water to keep the algae from growing. Shake up and down before opening and boil to be sure it is safe to drink. Or buy some Sports Berkey Water Bottles and you can filter/purify the water you stored in the soda bottles. Another great gift for seniors living at home is motion sensative lights.

CHRISTMAS GIFTS: Can You Give the Gift of Preparedness?

This is my favorite filter to have on hand because I can filter a lot of water in less time. What will we do for cash if the power and internet are down at your local ATM? It takes discipline, but some well-hidden cash is an important part of preparedness planning. And of course, for college students, rolls of quarters are always appreciated. Likewise for students, a gift certificate to a local grocery store.

To that end we highly recommend this 9-in-1 solar flashlight for Christmas. It’s equipped with a powerful 200-lumen LED bulb that illuminates 200 yards ahead of you. The kicker is that it also comes with a phone charger, glass breaking hammer, rope cutter, compass, as well as other features. The book’s not only essential to your survival, but it makes the subject of preparedness uniquely entertaining. I want to challenge our readers to do that again. Instead of buying a bunch of random gifts, why not give the gift of Preparedness?

Paper Products We All Need To Store For Survival

Always make sure you keep a list of medical problems, medications you take, and emergency contact for when help arrives. Every student who drives a long distance to school should have an emergency car kit. Sadly, college students have frozen returning from Christmas holidays, when cars break down in severe cold temperatures. This should be in a backpack or fanny pack, to keep hands free.

They hold a heck of a lot more than a regular backpack does, and they are only $35. I love all of the pockets and how you can access the main storage of the pack from either the top or the front. If you have a fireplace or wood burning stove you are set. Then gather some wood, if it’s okay to store where you live, and you have heat available when needed.

Prepper Scavenger Hunt – Fun For The Whole Family!

Emergency Preparedness Gift Guides – perfect preparedness Christmas gifts for the whole family. I personally have the solar generator shown. I’m excited to have it in case of electrical outages which seem to be far more common nowadays.

We may love everything there is about preparedness, but when you’re trying to get someone involved, you need to introduce them slowly. Give them an opportunity to absorb a little bit of information, learn to use a couple items and start seeing the benefit of everyday preparedness. Last year, I wrote an article about giving the gift of preparedness. In the article, I suggested that instead of buying your friends and family a bunch of useless crap, it might be a better idea to give them the gift of preparedness. It can be a great way to introduce preparedness into the lives of your unprepared friends and family.

The prepping ladies and I have chosen to opt for a more subtle and inch-by-inch approach to self-reliance education. Survivor Jane once told me a story about enticing friends and relatives with a delicious pie which was made with fruit she had grown in her very own backyard. Planting the seeds of survival can be just that simple. Most plasma lighters look just like Zippos, which is nice, but can actually be cumbersome in certain emergency situations. The long, cigar shape of the CrossFire gives you a few inches of extra space for lighting campfires.

It can be something direct, like a survival book or survival kit; or it can be something a little stealthier, like an emergency vehicle kit. Portawell is a high-flow, two-stage water filter that uses battery power. It uses standard filters and is probably unlike anything you’ve seen before.

If your family is all wearing the same distinctive shirt it is much more likely that someone will remember seeing your child. Even better, you might get a member of the media to say “This child is wearing a shirt just like this one”. You can also use the same tactic with bandannas and baseball caps. Just remember to make them all the same and distinctive from those you can purchase.

Our final recommendation is simple enough—a plasma lighter shaped like a cigar—but a closer look will show you why this might be the perfect stocking stuffer. That’s why the Solo Stove Lite makes a great Christmas gift. It runs on sticks and leaves, so running out of fuel isn’t a worry. Maybe make them an urban EDC kit that has things like chapstick and nail clippers and other everyday necessities. Multi-tool would be better than the nothing they have now and they might actually carry it. Good idea but I’ve seen this attempted in the past and it had no effect whatsoever… at least for my extended family.